5 more weeks!

I have five weeks left before going to college!!!

Five more times playing the organ.
Three more times teaching Primary.
And only five more times being in Young Women's.

This is winding down fast!

I just ordered my reading books for my Humanities class as well as a book for my Book of Mormon class.

Have I mentioned I'm excited at all?

I just designed my binder covers with one of the greatest women in the world. One of my Young Women leaders and one of my greatest friends, AshLee Winterrose! She made my binders possible to be really fun! I can't wait to put them in my binders and figure out what school supplies I need! I can't wait!!!

Now the nerves aren't really getting me, but I'm getting more and more excited as the days go on!

38 more days until I leave! :) :) :)

End of May - Michael Buble

One of my new favorite songs by Michael Buble, maybe even my very favorite song, is called End of May. And right now, it feels like it really is meant for me. Each word Michael sings with his ever so silky smooth voice is meant for me.

I just had one of my very best and closest friends, Bryson Mahoney, leave to the MTC for his LDS mission to Cape Town, South Africa on Wednesday, July 11, 2012. I feel like this song helps me kind of cope through losing one of my best friends for two years. It really is a sacrifice.

Here are the lyrics:

Golden haze,
Another morning feels like yesterday.
End of May..
Now you’re gone and there’s still bills to pay.
And you know it doesn’t help to make believe, you’re sitting next to me.
It doesn’t help, to make believe that you are right behind me
Saying it’s okay.

Longer days,
More time to sit and watch the pendulum sway.
In quiet rage I’m staring at this empty notebook page.
In times like these you feel like you are done with feeling,
You feel you want to stop the pain from healing
Because you feel like you’re the only one who’s ever felt this way.

Some days in a daze, there’s brighter days.
Funny how the feeling never stays,
But I know I’ll have to come to terms when I’m awake,
Thinking about you is the icing on the cake.
Makes me realize the fact you’re gone for good for goodness sake.

Golden haze, another morning feels like yesterday.
End of may, a year is gone and I still feel this way,
When we meet again I’ll ask you how you’re doing
And you’ll say fine and ask me how I’m doing

And then I’ll lie and I’ll say ordinary, It’s just an ordinary day.

Hard Work's Earnings

For the longest time, I have wanted to go to college. Honestly, I think whenever I first heard about going to university, I wanted to go. I was probably three or four years old, and I have been counting down decades, years, months, and now, even days!

But one thing has to happen before you can start out on an adventure like that.

You have to work.

When I was 11, I got my first "job". I was a babysitter. For the next 7 years, I would babysit families all over the town, especially for those in my ward, or for family friends. I earned a pretty good amount of money from doing that, and I am so thankful for all that babysitting has taught me. A lot of good homemaking skills and skills about being a mother are taught to you when you babysit.

When I was 16, I got my first real job at my town's local fast food restaurant, "Dairy Keen: Home of the Train". I have worked there ever since, and I have also earned a lot of money, but more than the money, I have gained a lot of skills--especially how to work with people.

Neither of these jobs are very glamorous, but they were so worth it, now that I look back on it. I didn't realize how necessary having a job was to my social growth as a human being, and I am so grateful I did them.

These past few months, getting ready for going to college is expensive, but I have my savings that have taken 7 years to accumulate. I think I really am almost done with all my college shopping--at least in Heber. There will be things I need to buy in Rexburg that will have to wait until we're there, but for now, I think I'm pretty much done!

One exciting purchase I just made was a brand new laptop! This is my very first blog on my very first laptop! How exciting is that? :)

Well, if you want a countdown of days until I leave, here it is:

56 days!

Yay!!!